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Examples of flinty in a Sentence
a flinty and determined hero
a flinty warrior hardened by years of battle
Recent Examples on the Web
This history tends to make islanders tough and rooted in their own reality, à la the flinty fishmongers and conch divers of Our Blues.
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Gary Shteyngart, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Nov. 2023
The titular protagonist of Clowes’s new graphic novel, Monica, is a woman defined not by defensive misanthropy but by a flinty resilience that propels her to find real meaning in her life.
—Jeremy Gordon, The Atlantic, 2 Oct. 2023
In Kate Myers’ funny, flinty debut, four women converge at a Greek archaeological dig led by a preening professor.
—Monitor Contributors, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 July 2023
Always Iowa first, then New Hampshire — which zealously guarded its status as the first-in-the-nation actual primary, luring all future presidents to the rickety diner back rooms and high school gymnasiums of the flinty Northern state with a streak of independence.
—Ross Barkan, New York Times, 5 July 2023
Individual stars were flinty points of brilliance.
—Peter M. Leschak, Star Tribune, 15 May 2021
Somewhat flinty aromas with tropicals that include lime.
—Tom Mullen, Forbes, 11 Feb. 2023
The younger Leda is remarkably played by Jessie Buckley with flinty defiance and an escalating sense of suffocated mania.
—Guy Lodge, Los Angeles Times, 16 Dec. 2021
As Margaret Thatcher, whose entrance coincides with the Princess of Wales’s, the overrated Gillian Anderson is all mimicry and no subtlety, bringing to the role little of the flinty humor that defined Meryl Streep’s performance in The Iron Lady.
—Graham Hillard, Washington Examiner, 10 Dec. 2020
Gary Shteyngart, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Nov. 2023
The titular protagonist of Clowes’s new graphic novel, Monica, is a woman defined not by defensive misanthropy but by a flinty resilience that propels her to find real meaning in her life.
—Jeremy Gordon, The Atlantic, 2 Oct. 2023
In Kate Myers’ funny, flinty debut, four women converge at a Greek archaeological dig led by a preening professor.
—Monitor Contributors, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 July 2023
Always Iowa first, then New Hampshire — which zealously guarded its status as the first-in-the-nation actual primary, luring all future presidents to the rickety diner back rooms and high school gymnasiums of the flinty Northern state with a streak of independence.
—Ross Barkan, New York Times, 5 July 2023
Individual stars were flinty points of brilliance.
—Peter M. Leschak, Star Tribune, 15 May 2021
Somewhat flinty aromas with tropicals that include lime.
—Tom Mullen, Forbes, 11 Feb. 2023
The younger Leda is remarkably played by Jessie Buckley with flinty defiance and an escalating sense of suffocated mania.
—Guy Lodge, Los Angeles Times, 16 Dec. 2021
As Margaret Thatcher, whose entrance coincides with the Princess of Wales’s, the overrated Gillian Anderson is all mimicry and no subtlety, bringing to the role little of the flinty humor that defined Meryl Streep’s performance in The Iron Lady.
—Graham Hillard, Washington Examiner, 10 Dec. 2020
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“Flinty.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/flinty. Accessed 19 Apr. 2024.
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